Since its Friday, I'll tell the rest of that fridge/eBay story:

About two years ago I started looking for a compressor fridge when I
found one on eBay for $250 in Florida. Not too many people were
looking for these things at the time and I readied my foolproof-last-
second-bid-strategy so I could pounce on this thing. I think my high
bid was going to be $375 or something like that. With 6 seconds to go,
I dropped in my bid and for some reason my browser stalled and I lost
the auction! Someone got it for $275! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I stumbled around in a stupor for the next 3 or 4 hours bemoaning my
horrible misfortune. How could this happen to me? I'll never find
another one of these at that price...

The next day I open up my eBay and there's the same fridge - relisted!
Or so I thought. Same picture and description so I assumed that the
buyer had fallen through. I decided to not chance another auction and
contacted the seller directly. I asked him to delist the fridge and I
would pay him the $250. I told him that I wanted this fridge and that
I had screwed up my bid the day before. He wrote back and agreed to
delist the fridge and sell it to me, but that this was not the fridge
from the day before - he had two!

Sometimes - despite my best efforts to derail my own good fortune -
dumb luck prevails.

Jeff in Marin

PS: my best results with this, or any fridge for that matter, are to
plug the fridge into AC at least 4 hours before my trip and put COLD
items in the fridge at the last minute. A large mass of cold items
seems to keep the fridge happy.

On Sep 2, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:09:45 -0700
> From:    mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
> Subject: Re: Refrigerator lighting
>
> The same basic fridges were sold under various brand names. Dometic
> even
> sold them for while, as the TJ18.
>
> http://www.dometic.com/enus/Americas/USA/Truck/Refrigerators-Freezers/Products/?productdataid=74841
>
> Getting one for $250 is great but there is little chance of any given
> list member duplicating that good fortune. They only rarely come up on
> Ebay at a super bargain like that.
>
> Mark
>
>
> Robert Stevens wrote:
>> On Sep 1, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Jeffrey Vickers wrote:
>>
>>> Or... you can end all the fridge voodo and get an Isotherm fridge
>>> like
>>> this one: http://vickersdesign.com/vanagon/fridge2.jpg
>>
>> Your Isotherm sure looks like my Vitrifrigo, Jeff. ;-)
>> Much better $$ you paid though.
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/syncronaut/sets/72157627447585785/
>>
>> bob
>>
>